I'm re-uploading the Ken Nordine interview we aired on Solid Steel in 2008 because it had disappeared from the web (copyright takedowns). I completely re-edited, mixed and extended it with new music and speech not included in the orig. 1998 version.

I’d imagine this tape was an in-house publishing/licensing showreel sent out to prospective labels and I’m guessing the timeframe, from the tracks I can identify, was around 1986-87.

Supposedly produced by label founder Larry Sherman in 1987 according to the Discogs entry, the tape kicks off side A with a ten minute megamix which I’d say was of UK origin by the use of spoken word samples and scratches,

Founded by Tony Prince and named after his radio show, Disco Mix Club began releasing tapes in 1983 to provide a promo service for DJs in the UK. Subscribers were vetted to make sure they were practising pro or semi-pro DJs...

It's been a while coming but I've finally had some time to dive into the pile of cassettes I got at Revolution Records in Penge this summer.

Busy doing stuff like this for my annual 45 Live mix - lots of early House and Hip House from the late 80s/early 90s.

Hi all, here's the first in a random series of uploads from the recent Revolution Records tape haul I found

The hand of fate has meant that I discovered a very interesting stash of cassettes the other week, as you do when you dig long enough.

A rare occurrence for the show to end this run of 200 archive uploads - the traditional time of putting the clocks back is 2am - smack bang in the middle of the show - we get an extra hour. For this reason, this mix was referred to as a Spacetime mix

As I’ve said before in these missives, a Solid Sphinx was an ad-free, minimal chat mix for two hours. The upside being that both we and the listeners could dive in and really immerse ourselves into the music without interruption between 1-3am.